The Best Replacements for Privacy-Invading Services

The Best Replacements for Privacy-Invading ServicesThese days, it seems like everyone's out to violate your privacy. But even if you care about privacy, you probably don't want to leave the internet forever, so here are some of the best alternatives to some major services that actually respect your privacy.

Some services, like Google or Facebook, are very transparent in their privacy policies and you know what you're getting into when you sign up (if you actually read it). They also typically collect data for their own purposes, rather than anything nefarious?but they still collect a lot of data. In Facebook's case, they have enough of your personal info that it routinely causes paranoia about their privacy practices. This week, Facebook is even giving you a chance to vote on your ability to vote on future site changes (including privacy changes). Obviously, we can't provide privacy-centric alternatives to every service out there, but here are a few replacements for popular services that collect too much data.

Piecemeal Service or Glassboard Instead of Facebook

The Best Replacements for Privacy-Invading ServicesAs we've mentioned before, Facebook tracks pretty much everything you do online, and they even sell some of that information. Facebook is pretty blunt about this in their Privacy Policy. Facebook's privacy practices change so often, we have an always up-to-date guide to managing them. With Facebook in particular, you also need to worry about third party apps and games because they may unintentionally your leak data as well.

We've talked about making your own piecemeal service using different networks before, and that's one of the best replacements for Facebook. Instead of handing over all your private data to one service, you can piece together your various services, say Flickr (who gives you a lot of control over your own copyright), and make your own blog so you can control the content that's shared easily.

As an alternative, we like Glassboard because it's incredibly easy to use, and the Privacy Policy is very simple. Your data is encrypted on Glassboard's servers, and Glassboard doesn't sell your personal information for targeted ads. Perhaps most importantly, Glassboard doesn't have privacy setting because everything you do on the service is private and is only seen by people you approve. Of course, a social network is only as good as the people on it, so you'll have to convince your friends and family to pick up a different service if you want it to truly work.

Other alternatives: Turn your email into a private social network.

DuckDuckGo Instead of Google Search

The Best Replacements for Privacy-Invading ServicesGoogle is pretty up-front about the fact that they collect data from you in order to make its services work better. They do so in order to keep your data in sync across devices, serve you targeted ads, and provide personalized search information to you based on your history. According to Google's Privacy Policy, they share your information with domain andminstrators, for external processing and legal reasons. They also share non-personally identifiable information with their partners (this could include your history, ad impressions, and other similar information).

DuckDuckGo is already one of our favorite alternatives to Google Search, and its Privacy Policy makes it a good choice for privacy advocates. DuckDuckGo doesn't use cookies to track your searches, it doesn't save personally identifiable information (not even your IP address), and most importantly it doesn't use targeted ads.

DuckDuckGo doesn't have the advanced search options that Google has, and since they don't track your browsing history the results aren't nearly as tuned to you personally as Google's. Still, if you're worried about the amount of data collected on your browsing habits, both are better options than Google.

Other alternatives: Ixquick, Blekko, Startpage

Lavabit Instead of Gmail

The Best Replacements for Privacy-Invading ServicesGmail is great from a security point of view, but the fact Google scans your email to serve you targeted ads is a little worrisome for some. You can opt out pretty easily, but if you're bothered about how Google is collecting the data it might be best to step away from them entirely.

If you're more worried about privacy in general, your best bet is a service that doesn't hold onto information for very long. Lavabit is an email service that logs the least amount of data as possible while still maintaining a service that actually functions. Most importantly, according to their Privacy Policy, Lavabit doesn't store your IP address, outgoing messages are only stored on the server for about 7 days, and every email you send is encrypted in a way that even the administrators can't access it.

Other alternatives: Make your own mail server, Valtletmail, Enigmail for Thunderbird

App.net Instead of Twitter

The Best Replacements for Privacy-Invading ServicesTwitter's Privacy Policy is actually pretty strong (and transparent) compared to most social networks, but as we've pointed out before, Twitter is still tracking what you do online in order to serve your personalized content and ads. Your account is also public by default, which not only means anyone can check it out, but also that your tweets may end up in the LIbrary of Congress someday. As we've seen before, abrasive tweets can live on forever and hurt you in real life.

As an alternative, App.net has a Privacy Policy that doesn't use your information to serve ads. They only share your information with third party vendors required for the service to work (like the payment processors for your account), law enforcement (when required), and anonymized data with other third parties. Also, when you delete something from App.net, it's gone from the servers within two weeks, and unlike Twitter there's no Library of Congress initiative to save that data. It's not a completely private experience, but it's about as close to one as a social network can get, and at the very least you're not served ads or recommendations based on your browsing history.

Other alternatives: Identica.

SpiderOak Instead of Dropbox

The Best Replacements for Privacy-Invading ServicesDropbox has a relatively solid Privacy Policy, but employees still have file level access to your files in the case of a DMCA take down request which theoretically means they could peek at your files at any time. The other big cloud storage services follow suit in this respect.

The best alternative is SpiderOak, for a pretty simple reason: they have no idea what you're storing online. Their Privacy Policy outlines that they only collect information from you necessary to provide you a service (like your name and billing information). Other than that, they don't know much about you or your files. They don't know your password, and all your data is encrypted using that password?which essentially means employees at SpiderOak have no way to access it. SpiderOak isn't nearly as slick and easy to use as Dropbox, nor does it have the simple file-sharing for collaborative projects, but as a secure place to back up your private data it's a solid alternative to Dropbox.

Other alternatives: Roll your own personal file sharing service, Encrypt all your data on Dropbox, Wuala.

TuneIn Radio Instead of Pandora

The Best Replacements for Privacy-Invading ServicesBy its nature, Pandora has to track a ton of your personal information for it to work properly. Subsequently, its Privacy Policy allows for a lot of sharing of your data. Your data is shared with advertisers, third parties, and advertisers can place cookies in your browser to track you further. More importantly, your account, which includes your listening activity and profile page, is public by default. You can turn this feature off, but it's a little unsettling that it's on by default.

Unfortunately, it's basically impossible for a service to exist that mimics Pandora's intelligent radio recommendations and also respects your privacy. If you want to just listen to the a programmed radio station, TuneIn Radio has a Privacy Policy that doesn't track you for advertising. However, they hold any information you give them, but at least you can listen to most of their radio streams without a profile. If nothing else, most of the other streaming music services don't make your account public by default.

Other alternatives: None (most streaming services track you for at least advertising)

Jitsi Instead of Skype

The Best Replacements for Privacy-Invading ServicesSkype has been accused of releasing private data before, and it has also been accused of eavesdropping on your calls. As Skype's Privacy Policy notes, your data, including instant messages, voicemail messages, and videomail messages, is stored for up to 90 days, and they'll hand any data they have over to government officials when required.

For an alternative, we like the open source software Jitsi. Jitsi has encryption on both ends of the conversation, messages aren't saved online, and it uses the more private Session Initial Protocol so your data doesn't go anywhere. Essentially, everything you do with Jitsi is encrypted, and since nothing is stored online you don't need to worry about that data falling into the wrong hands.

Other alternatives: VSee


Of course, nearly every single web site you visit has a privacy policy, and some are better than others. What really matters is how much of your data you're willing to let companies have and use. In some cases, data collection is under the guise of building a better service, but with advertising and the ever-increasing danger of having your personal information leaked in a hack, it's a good idea to use services that store the least amount of information about you as possible.

If you're mostly upset about how your data is sent to advertisers, we like the Collusion and PrivacyScore extensions because they show you exactly where your browsing data is going. You can also snag the Disconnect extensions to stop Facebook, Google, and Twitter from tracking you. To opt out of the other advertising that tracks you and invades your privacy, the Network Advertising Initiative has a opt-out page that shows who's tracking you in your browser and allows you to disable it.

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Gmail 4.2 update now available for non-Nexus devices

Gmail update

Just a quick heads up that there's an update to your Gmail app that brings you the same version that we've been enjoying on the Nexus 4, Nexus 7, Nexus 10 and Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.2. That means you've got swipe to archive/delete, zoom into HTML e-mails (be sure to turn it on in the settings) and other bad-assery. The full update's available for any device on Android 4.0 and above. Here's that changelog:

  • Auto-fit messages to screen and message zooming
  • Swipe messages to archive or delete
  • Attach photos and videos from within Gmail
  • Larger photo previews and gallery view for photo attachments
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

If you're on Android 2.2 (and above), you'll get new labels for third-party app developers, and other performance improvements.

Hit the Play Store app on your phone (or the link above) to get your update on.

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Environmental risk: UK protests over fears of fracking ban lift | End ...

Published: 02 December, 2012, 14:04

Demonstrators, including one wearing a mask of British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (L) pose placards in protest against hydraulic fracturing for shale gas outside parliament in London on December 1, 2012.  (AFP Photo / Justin Tallis)

Demonstrators, including one wearing a mask of British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (L) pose placards in protest against hydraulic fracturing for shale gas outside parliament in London on December 1, 2012. (AFP Photo / Justin Tallis)

Campaigners protested in London against fracking, a controversial practice of shale gas extraction, amid reports that the UK is to lift the temporary ban on the method. Critics cite the environmental risks the practice poses, including earthquakes.

Fracking is a controversial technique in which high-pressurized water and chemicals are pumped into rock formations deep below the earth?s surface to produce gas and oil, carrying a risk of earthquakes and water pollution.

The supporters of the practice argue that the method could increase Britain?s energy supply by tapping into underground gas reserves and UK will no longer have to import at high prices.

?Britain is spending tens of billions of pounds importing gas,? said Cuadrilla?s Chief Executive Francis Egan. ?We have proven that there is [shale] gas and that it will flow.?

?Most geologists think this is a pretty safe activity,? head of energy science at the British Geological Survey Mike Stephenson told The Independent. ?We think the risk is pretty low and we have the scientific tools to tell if there is a problem.?

Demonstrators hold placards in protest against hydraulic fracturing for shale gas outside the US Embassy in London on December 1, 2012.  (AFP Photo / Justin Tallis)
Demonstrators hold placards in protest against hydraulic fracturing for shale gas outside the US Embassy in London on December 1, 2012. (AFP Photo / Justin Tallis)

The government has denied The Independent?s report and has played down the potential risks posed by the method.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has responded that the effects of fracking are not yet known and there is no reason for exaggeration.

?It is too early to assess the potential for shale gas but the suggestion more than 60 per cent of the UK countryside could be exploited is nonsense,? the department said in a statement. ?We have commissioned the British Geological Survey to do an assessment of the UK?s shale gas resources, which will report its findings next year.?

But opponents believe that the environmental risks are too great.

Greenpeace Executive Director John Sauven told The Guardian that ?the potential for shale gas to bring down bills is overhyped.?

?To allow fracking in the UK would be the final nail in the coffin for Cameron?s green agenda,? said the statement from Britain and Ireland Frack Free group.

Demonstrators hold placards in protest against hydraulic fracturing for shale gas outside the US Embassy in London on December 1, 2012.  (AFP Photo / Justin Tallis)
Demonstrators hold placards in protest against hydraulic fracturing for shale gas outside the US Embassy in London on December 1, 2012. (AFP Photo / Justin Tallis)

Risk of lifting fracking ban in UK

UK is estimated to sit on 1.5 trillion pounds (US$2.4 trillion) of shale gas reserves, Telegraph reported. Some of the rich shale gas areas include the Weald area in Sussex and Hampshire, and from Cambridge through Oxford and down to Bath.

Fracking has been banned in the UK since 2011 when it was blamed for causing two earthquakes in Blackpool. US Company Cuadrilla, behind the drilling exploration in the area, was forced to halt its work.

In fact, after UK protests, Francis Egan told the Sunday Telegraph that the development of gas resources in the UK is essential for the economy. He argued that his company would be forced to walk away from Britain, if the ban is not lifted soon.

Egan believes his company has the capacity to produce shale gas as soon as March next year.

?We are starting a whole new onshore gas industry. In our license alone we can supply a quarter of the UK?s gas demand,? he said.

On top of that, George Osborne is expected to use his Autumn Statement this week to lift the ban by announcing tax breaks for companies that use fracking, statingthat domestic shale gas industry will boost economy by decreasing gas prices and creating jobs.

However, evidence reveals that an unidentified chemical used in fracking in the United States has been linked to kidney and liver damage. Environmental officials in Pennsylvania have come under fire for their tests on drinking water from a well near a natural gas drilling site. Toluene, benzene and arsenic have been found in the bodies of nearby residents.

The practice has also been linked to earthquakes in the US, witnessed in states such as California, Ohio, and Arkansas.

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About 300 demonstrators turned out for a national day of action after a report from The Independent warned that the government had nearly two-thirds of British countryside marked for potential shale gas drilling sites that were now under active consideration for fracking.

Conservative MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne is expected to announce the lifting of the temporary fracking ban this week after the practice was hauled due to two earthquakes linked to the method.

Activists have sent a letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron stating that fracking is a ?an unpredictable, unregulatable process? that is damaging to the environment.

Protesters also installed a 7.2m fracking rig outside the parliament and erected 6.1mdrilling rig outside the London home of the chairman of shale gas company Cuadrilla, which used fracking in the UK in the past.

Other activist groups from Lancashire, Yorkshire, Somerset, South Wales and Sussex also came out to protest against proposed fracking development.

Demonstrators hold placards in protest against hydraulic fracturing for shale gas outside the US Embassy in London on December 1, 2012.  (AFP Photo / Justin Tallis)
Demonstrators hold placards in protest against hydraulic fracturing for shale gas outside the US Embassy in London on December 1, 2012. (AFP Photo / Justin Tallis)

Fracking is a controversial technique in which high-pressurized water and chemicals are pumped into rock formations deep below the earth?s surface to produce gas and oil, carrying a risk of earthquakes and water pollution.

The supporters of the practice argue that the method could increase Britain?s energy supply by tapping into underground gas reserves and UK will no longer have to import at high prices.

?Britain is spending tens of billions of pounds importing gas,? said Cuadrilla?s Chief Executive Francis Egan. ?We have proven that there is [shale] gas and that it will flow.?

?Most geologists think this is a pretty safe activity,? head of energy science at the British Geological Survey Mike Stephenson told The Independent. ?We think the risk is pretty low and we have the scientific tools to tell if there is a problem.?

Demonstrators hold placards in protest against hydraulic fracturing for shale gas outside the US Embassy in London on December 1, 2012.  (AFP Photo / Justin Tallis)
Demonstrators hold placards in protest against hydraulic fracturing for shale gas outside the US Embassy in London on December 1, 2012. (AFP Photo / Justin Tallis)

The government has denied The Independent?s report and has played down the potential risks posed by the method.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change has responded that the effects of fracking are not yet known and there is no reason for exaggeration.

?It is too early to assess the potential for shale gas but the suggestion more than 60 per cent of the UK countryside could be exploited is nonsense,? the department said in a statement. ?We have commissioned the British Geological Survey to do an assessment of the UK?s shale gas resources, which will report its findings next year.?

But opponents believe that the environmental risks are too great.

Greenpeace Executive Director John Sauven told The Guardian that ?the potential for shale gas to bring down bills is overhyped.?

?To allow fracking in the UK would be the final nail in the coffin for Cameron?s green agenda,? said the statement from Britain and Ireland Frack Free group.

Demonstrators hold placards in protest against hydraulic fracturing for shale gas outside the US Embassy in London on December 1, 2012.  (AFP Photo / Justin Tallis)
Demonstrators hold placards in protest against hydraulic fracturing for shale gas outside the US Embassy in London on December 1, 2012. (AFP Photo / Justin Tallis)

Risk of lifting fracking ban in UK

UK is estimated to sit on 1.5 trillion pounds (US$2.4 trillion) of shale gas reserves, Telegraph reported. Some of the rich shale gas areas include the Weald area in Sussex and Hampshire, and from Cambridge through Oxford and down to Bath.

Fracking has been banned in the UK since 2011 when it was blamed for causing two earthquakes in Blackpool. US Company Cuadrilla, behind the drilling exploration in the area, was forced to halt its work.

In fact, after UK protests, Francis Egan told the Sunday Telegraph that the development of gas resources in the UK is essential for the economy. He argued that his company would be forced to walk away from Britain, if the ban is not lifted soon.

Egan believes his company has the capacity to produce shale gas as soon as March next year.

?We are starting a whole new onshore gas industry. In our license alone we can supply a quarter of the UK?s gas demand,? he said.

On top of that, George Osborne is expected to use his Autumn Statement this week to lift the ban by announcing tax breaks for companies that use fracking, statingthat domestic shale gas industry will boost economy by decreasing gas prices and creating jobs.

However, evidence reveals that an unidentified chemical used in fracking in the United States has been linked to kidney and liver damage. Environmental officials in Pennsylvania have come under fire for their tests on drinking water from a well near a natural gas drilling site. Toluene, benzene and arsenic have been found in the bodies of nearby residents.

The practice has also been linked to earthquakes in the US, witnessed in states such as California, Ohio, and Arkansas.

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Source: http://endthelie.com/2012/12/02/environmental-risk-uk-protests-over-fears-of-fracking-ban-lift/

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Army report backs Madigan leader - Health & Fitness - The ...

ADAM ASHTON | Staff writer ? Published December 03, 2012 Modified December 02, 2012

An Army investigation glowingly endorses the Madigan Army Medical Center commander who temporarily lost his post this year amid complaints about inconsistencies in the hospital?s post-traumatic stress disorder diagnoses.

The report found that Col. Dallas Homas ?did not exert any undue influence over PTSD diagnoses, and that he acted appropriately enforcing standard medical guidelines,? according to a summary The News Tribune obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

The Army relieved Homas from his command from February until August as part of its investigation into the forensic psychiatry program at the Army hospital south of Tacoma.

Madigan?s forensic team had the last say on behavioral health diagnoses in disability evaluations, and patients couldn?t understand why the team?s psychologists sometimes changed other doctors? PTSD diagnoses to other conditions.

Concerns about the program reached Homas? level in part because one doctor in a staff meeting suggested psychologists be mindful of long-term costs to the government in making their diagnoses. PowerPoint slides from the briefing estimated the cost of a diagnosis at $1.5 million over time.

The Army has since given fresh PTSD diagnoses to 150 patients who had passed through the Madigan team over the past four years; all those patients previously were given a clean bill of health or a different diagnosis. Others who want their cases reviewed still can get new opinions.

An Army lawyer wrote to The News Tribune that a broader inquiry is still under way, and the military is declining to release more documents until it adopts a ?corrective action plan.? The News Tribune requested copies of all Army investigations stemming from the complaints about forensic psychiatry.

Homas? suspension brought potentially career-killing scrutiny to the West Point graduate, a veteran of both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Homas? supporters throughout the Army feared he was being scapegoated for criticism of a forensic psychiatry program that was created years before he took his command in March 2011.

Madigan?s forensic psychiatry program in 2009 was endorsed to the highest levels of Army medicine as a ?best practice? because it was thought to achieve a higher degree of accuracy.

?I know all the persons described in the news reports. They are fine soldiers and dedicated doctors, who have devoted their lives to treating patients, both in the United States and in Iraq and Afghanistan,? Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, a retired Army psychologist, wrote on Time magazine?s Battleland blog just after Homas? suspension in February.

Lt. Gen. David Perkins carried out the review of Homas? command climate. Perkins found widespread support for the commander and recommended that Homas be reinstated. Perkins stressed that Homas did not intervene in any forensic psychiatry cases except to encourage doctors to ?use established medical standards to make accurate diagnoses.?

Civilian and military employees ?stated that Col. Homas was one of the finest hospital commanders ever assigned to (Madigan),? Perkins wrote in his July 31 report. The general praised Homas for conveying clear goals for the hospital and motivating employees to improve access to health care.

His ?vision was accepted, endorsed and engrained through the command and was one of the driving factors behind the significant improvements at (Madigan) during his command,? Perkins wrote.

Homas said at an August news conference: ?I am thrilled, excited to be back, to get after it again.?

Perkins? otherwise ringing endorsement of the Madigan commander faulted Homas for his interactions with congressional lawmakers. Perkins wrote that Homas? written responses to lawmakers in the investigation could have been perceived as ?inappropriate in tone.?

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., drove the calls for the inquiries because her office received some of the initial complaints about the Madigan doctors. She pressed Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to expand the reviews and look at all Defense Department standards for PTSD diagnoses. That review is not complete.

Homas met Murray in summer 2011 when Lewis-McChord opened new apartments for wounded and sick soldiers. Their meeting took place during a month when the base saw a sudden spike in suicides, and Murray posed a number of questions about Army behavioral health programs.

Murray spokesman Matt McAlvanaugh declined to answer questions last week about Perkins? critique of Homas? relations with lawmakers.

?Clearly, based on the fact that there were hundreds of service members who had their PTSD diagnoses incorrectly changed, there were serious mistakes made at Madigan,? McAlvanaugh said. ?Sen. Murray is pleased that the Army responded to her concerns over these mistakes, and that many of those that were misdiagnosed have since had their cases reviewed, are now properly diagnosed, and are getting access to the appropriate care.?

Adam Ashton: 253-597-8646 adam.ashton@ thenewstribune.com blog.thenewstribune.com/military @tntmilitary

Source: http://www.theolympian.com/2012/12/03/2339981/army-report-backs-madigan-leader.html

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Meditation: You Are Fulfillment | Truth N Health

Someone asked, ?What? is Happiness??
In a word, Happiness is fulfillment.? It is an internal state? of non-neediness.
Whenever we felt needy in the past, we most likely? looked to the outside world in order to fill that void.? The trouble with this approach is that once we got whatever we thought we needed, happiness had moved on.? We then found we were lacking? something else, and now we needed that too.? Each successive object or? experience only temporarily filled the hole. When we? began our meditation practice, almost immediately we had the? experience of fulfillment within ourselves.? Inner contentedness is purely self-referral.? That means, it does not depend on anything outside of ourselves in order for it to exist.

Fulfillment is something we have.? It is what we are,? in our least excited state.? Think of it as an absolute, non-changing source of happiness.? With each successive meditation, we? experience it just a little bit more. With continued practice, we can begin to maintain that? sense of internal fulfillment even outside of our meditation.? It becomes stabilized.? This cultivation? of non-neediness results in sustained happiness.? External circumstances no longer make or break us.

We already are fulfilled.

The website's content is not a substitute for direct, personal, professional medical care and diagnosis. None of the exercises or treatments (including products and services) mentioned at TruthNHealth.com should be performed or otherwise used without clearance from your physician or health care provider. The information contained within is not intended to provide specific physical or mental health advice, or any other advice whatsoever, for any individual or company and should not be relied upon in that regard.

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Creating A More Heart Centered Business - Retirement Homes

As a residential or service provider for seniors, it is easy to get caught up with meeting State and Federal regulations, financial issues, personnel turnover, and dealing with the everyday running of a business. That said, the real priority is how well you can care for the seniors and their families whom place lives in your trust. Priority One is your Resident.

How can you easily improve how you serve your senior customer in a more Heart Centered manner?

1. Make it easy for communication with family to occur ? to and from. This includes phone usage (and long distance) any time of day. Ease for family members to connect with a ?live? caregiver any time of day. Most family members work and many live in different time zones, how easy to you make it for them to maintain communication with their family member but also with YOU?

  • Do you have a 1-800 number?
  • Can people leave a message besides voice mail? Something like a website plugin called Vicita can allow a person to type in their message to the company for answering.
  • Is there a ?live? person answering phones at all times?
  • Can the senior access a phone easily and have privacy (very important) any time of day?

2.Sexuality and Intimacy ? these two issues seem to be human needs that service providers and facilities shy away from. Do the people you serve have opportunities for intimacy with another resident, spouses, or their significant other? If not, why? Just because a person is, a senior doesn?t mean that their sex drive or need for intimacy is gone. Can a wife of a resident visit and spend the night with her husband who is under your care?

Please take some time to really see how your service can create a more responsive environment to meet the very basic needs of people ? intimacy, sexuality, and maintaining closeness with another person.

3. No matter how hard we try, staff will treat whom they serve differently for a variety of reasons and that isn?t going to change. The question is how do we turn that into a positive?

Some solutions may include in creating a biography of each senior served ? learn about the person?s past, hobbies once enjoyed, topics of discussion they enjoy, adventures they?ve experienced, and so forth. Involve family of the senior for more detail. In doing this, you allow staff to more fully recognize each senior as the individual they are and what kinds of life they had before becoming more limited. This exercise helps create relationships, for staff to view seniors they serve differently, and for a more ?family? environment to exist. Post the biography in the senior?s room so staff will always remember the wonderful life of the person they serve.

Have the seniors you serve create their own Adventure List vs. a Bucket List. Help those you serve to accomplish, in some manner, what they still want to get out of life.

Have the family create a collage of pictures, events, and other special moments of their senior family member. The collage should then be mounted in the resident?s room.

A great model is having staff responsible for seniors they prefer to work with. While working in an ICF, we had several staff that all preferred the same residents and they became a group of staff and residents who were always together. Other staff loved working with other residents and the model was repeated. The result was a significant improvement in the quality of care, less regression for residents, happier residents, less staff turnover, and much happier staff. Win-Win.

Creating a Heart Centered business doesn?t mean the business of being in business is any less but rather more. Adding in services, such as mentioned, create enormous intangible results that benefit seniors, staff, families, and your business. Tangible results will also be seen and many of them will be ones you would not have thought of.

Calling one?s self a Heart Centered business is common but how many are actually doing it fully? Discover and try various ways to create your own results achieving Heart Centered business and your business will thrive in the process.

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'Cliff' talks: White House waiting on GOP move

This Nov. 30, 2012, photo provided by CBS News shows Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner answering questions about averting the "fiscal cliff" on the December 2nd edition of ?Face the Nation.? Geithner said Republicans have to stop using fuzzy ?political math? and say how much they are willing to raise tax rates on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans and then specify the spending cuts they want, Treasury Secretary. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)

This Nov. 30, 2012, photo provided by CBS News shows Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner answering questions about averting the "fiscal cliff" on the December 2nd edition of ?Face the Nation.? Geithner said Republicans have to stop using fuzzy ?political math? and say how much they are willing to raise tax rates on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans and then specify the spending cuts they want, Treasury Secretary. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, after private talks with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on the fiscal cliff negotiations. Boehner said no substantive progress has been made between the White House and the House" in the past two weeks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

This Nov. 30, 2012, photo provided by CBS News shows Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner answering questions about averting the "fiscal cliff" on the December 2nd edition of ?Face the Nation.? Geithner said Republicans have to stop using fuzzy ?political math? and say how much they are willing to raise tax rates on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans and then specify the spending cuts they want, Treasury Secretary. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)

(AP) ? Republicans have to stop using "political math" and say how much they are willing to raise tax rates on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans and then specify the spending cuts they want, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said in an interview that aired Sunday.

Just four weeks from the proverbial "fiscal cliff," House Speaker John Boehner countered that Republicans have a plan for providing as much as $800 billion in new government revenue over the next decade and would consider the elimination of tax deductions on high-income earners. But when pressed on "Fox News Sunday" for precise details, the Ohio Republican declined to say.

There are "a lot of options in terms of how to get there," Boehner said.

Both Boehner's and Geithner's latest remarks indicate it could be some time before serious negotiations begin between the White House and Republicans on how to avert economic calamity expected in less than a month when President George W. Bush-era tax cuts expire and automatic, across-the-board spending cuts kick in.

Last week, the White House delivered to Capitol Hill its opening plan: $1.6 trillion in higher taxes over a decade, hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending, a possible extension of the temporary Social Security payroll tax cut and enhancing the president's power to raise the national debt limit.

In exchange, the president would back $600 billion in spending cuts, including $350 billion from Medicare and other health programs. But he also wants $200 billion in new spending for jobless benefits, public works projects and aid for struggling homeowners. His proposal for raising the ceiling on government borrowing would make it virtually impossible for Congress to block him.

Republicans said they responded in closed-door meetings with laughter and disbelief.

"I was just flabbergasted," Boehner said. "I looked at him (Geithner) and I said, 'You can't be serious.'" Boehner described negotiations as going "nowhere, period," and said "there's clearly a chance" the nation will go over the cliff.

Geithner, the administration's point man for negotiations, was slightly more optimistic while saying the ball was in Boehner's court. But the treasury secretary also said he didn't expect a counteroffer right away, as Republicans work to sort out tensions within the party in the wake of bruising national elections that left Democrats in charge of the White House and the Senate.

Boehner acknowledged in his interview, aired Sunday, that he wasn't happy with public remarks by Republican Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, who said he was ready to go along with Obama's plan to renew expiring income tax cuts for the majority of Americans and negotiate the rates on top earners later.

"They're trying to figure out where they go next," Geithner said of Republicans, "and we might need to give them a little time to figure out where they go next."

He called the back-and-forth "normal political theater," saying all that's blocking a timely deal is the GOP's reluctance to accept higher tax rates on the wealthy.

"It's welcome that they're recognizing that revenues are going to have to go up. But they haven't told us anything about how far rates should go up ... (and) who should pay higher taxes," Geithner said.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that she will try to force a vote on the Senate-passed bill favored by Democrats to avert a fiscal cliff. But she was unlikely to line up enough Republicans to succeed.

Republican leaders have said they accept higher tax revenue overall, but only through what they call tax reform __ closing loopholes and limiting deductions __ and only coupled with tough measures to curb the explosive growth of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

"If we gave the president $1.6 trillion of new money, what do you think he'd do with it?" asked Boehner. "He's going to spend it. It's what Washington does."

Cole didn't back down Sunday on his earlier comments that Republicans should agree to Obama's plan for continuing Bush's tax rates for middle-class America and focus the negotiations on the other issues. Doing so, he said, would make the GOP position even stronger.

"The reality is, nobody can look at this budget and think if you don't reform entitlements you can balance it. You can give the president every tax increase he's asked for, you'd still be in the hole," he said.

Geithner appeared on CBS' "Face the Nation," NBC's "Meet the Press," CNN's "State of the Union," ABC's "This Week" and "Fox News Sunday." Cole appeared on ABC "This Week."

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Associated Press writers Mark S. Smith in Washington and Erik Schelzig in Nashville, Tenn., contributed to this report.

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'A Home for the Holidays' Adoption Show to Be Hosted by Rascal ...

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Rascal Flatts is the latest country artist to participate the annual special, "A Home for the Holidays," which combines performances from top recording artists and heart-touching stories of adoption. "A Home for the Holidays With Rascal Flatts," is set to air Wednesday, Dec. 19, at 8:00 PM ET on CBS. In addition to hosting the show, the group -- Jay DeMarcus, Gary LeVox and Joe Don Rooney -- will also perform.

"A Home for the Holidays," which is now in its 14th year, was hosted in 2009 by Faith Hill, who was, in her own words, "adopted into a wonderful family." In 2010, singer Jimmy Wayne, who was in the foster-care system as a youngster, was featured on the program. Last year's host, Martina McBride, told The Boot, "There are so many kids out there who want to be part of a family. I think we take family for granted a little bit. For instance, we were decorating our Christmas tree ... we were laughing and talking about our ornaments and traditions and what different ornaments mean and who gave them to us, and I was struck in the middle of all that, thinking, 'There are so many kids who don't have this, who long to be part of a family and long to be able to have these kind of traditions.' It's heartbreaking."

Throughout the show, there will be musicial performances acompanying the story segments, which are introduced by celebrities who have their own adoption experience or are involved in adoption programs.

Along with Rascal Flatts, Melissa Etheridge, Matchbox Twenty, "American Idol'"s Phillip Phillips and "X Factor" finalist Rachel Crow will perform. Rachel, 14, will share her own personal story of foster care adoption, in addition to singing during the special.

"A Home for the Holdiays" will air Wednesday, Dec. 19, at 8:00 PM ET on CBS.

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